LotRO: Another Saturday night and I ain’t got no money
Mark and I poked around in BreeLand with our Champion/Captain combo, killing a little of this, delivering a little of that. We ran a couple escort missions, one successfully the other not. We wandered, we grinded missions, we both dinged 13. Your standard Friday night in Lord of the Rings Online.
Mike and I played our Hunters and ran some of the same epic quests that Mark and I ran Friday. We also did some wandering, traveling from Old Forest, in Breeland, to Trestlebridge Gate where we camped. We both dinged 14. It was your standard Saturday morning in Lord of the Ring Online. At 14 we received a 15% run speed increase skill. It drops when you are in attack mode, but it’s still a nice enhancement when running around, something we seem to be doing a lot of.
The Champion/Captain combo worked better in the instanced epic quests than the level higher Hunters. I’m not sure if it was our technique or just that the Champion/Captain are better as in-close tanks. The Hunters are much easier to play outside. A good Hunter fight is when the mob dies just as he arrives at our feet, within easy loot range.
Speaking of loot, I believe they have changed the loot rules in LotRO a little. We now must roll on every skin, or other crafting item, that drops. It’s an annoyance when hunting in bear country. Eventually I changed the loot rules to free for all. We are feeding all the skins to one of Marks toons anyway so he can work on crafting. We were using the master looter system in Vanguard, maybe we’ll go back to that. It’s much easier for everybody who isn’t the looter.
I have a 15 Champion in LoTRO that I’ve been soloing. He works ok, but just wading in, blades a-swinging, isn’t really my style. I’ve half way decided to stick with him. That Hunter run-increase is attractive though. I started a Hunter to see how it feels. He’s only level 7 and is a bit soft. He has a jaunty hat with a feather.
I feel like I’m missing something. Like I should be playing something else. I’ve tried playing WoW a little over the last couple of weeks, it wasn’t fun. The only thing I can think of is EVE and we all know how boring that can be. Well, it’s probably not boring at all, but I like to play in very short spurts, 15 to 20 minutes, and that doesn’t lead to grouping or long quests. I’ll think of something to get me out of these doldrums.